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U.S. v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.

No. 8.

315 U.S. 289 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 16, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Fahy argued the cause (Attorney General Jackson, Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Shea, and Messrs. Warner W. Gardner, Melvin H. Siegel, Frederick Bernays Wiener, Oscar H. Davis, and Paul D. Page, Jr. were on the brief; and Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Shea, and Messrs. Melvin H. Siegel, Robert L. Stern, and Paul D. Page, Jr. were on the reply brief) for petitioners.

Mr. Frederick H. Wood, with whom Mr. Alfred McCormack was on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

These two cases arise from a dispute between Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., and the Government about the amount of profits claimed by Bethlehem under thirteen war-time contracts for building ships. The contracts were negotiated and executed in 1917 and 1918, when Germany's destructive warfare against our ocean shipping essential to the successful prosecution...

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